Tilman J. Fertitta

Chairman, UH System Board of Regents

Chairman of the Board and CEO Landry's, Inc.

Tilman J. Fertitta was appointed to the University of Houston System Board of Regents in 2015 by Governor Greg Abbott for a second six-year term and will serve through August 31, 2021. For fiscal year 2016-2017, he will serve as chairman of the UH System Board of Regents; ex officio member on each of the Board's standing committees; liaison for Governmental Relations; and a member of the Executive and Compensation Committee.

A native of Galveston, he attended UH's Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management.

In 2004, Fertitta was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame, the second-youngest inductee ever to receive this honor next to Michael Dell.

Fertitta is chairman of the Houston Children Charity and the Houston Police Foundation, is on the executive committee of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, and serves on the boards of Texas Heart Institute, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Sam Houston Area Council - Boy Scouts of America, and the Greater Houston Partnership.